My Internet Experiment

Today I’m going to show you in text and video how to conduct free ebay market research using Terapeak.com

1. Have whatever you want to research in front of you, so you can examine it while you are researching it. Next visit http://terapeak.com
2. Look your item over, find out what make and model it is.
3. Type this into the Terapeak search bar and hit research.
4. Scroll down the listings viewing each one comparing it to what you have. When you find one that has a similar picture and title to what you have click on it.

Next let the comparisons begin

• Check the Ending Price Tag - What did this auction bring? Is it a Buy It Now or an Auction?
• Look at the Shipping Costs - Is the shipping low or high compared to what you could ship for.
• Look at the Seller’s feedback - Does he sell a lot?
• Look at the Buyer’s feedback - Does he or she buy a lot? or is it a newbie with low expectations?
• Look at the categories it’s listed in - these will be in blue hyperlinks at the top of the page
• What’s this seller’s specialty - are they selling this type of item all the time?
• Is the auction similar to what you are going to sell - Are there more or less items included, is the condition the same or better?
• How does the seller word the auction? Is it guaranteed to work? Is the description accurate, is it long or short?

After reviewing these things you’ll start to get an idea of what your listing should look like, and what you should take and apply to your auction.

General Tips

• Have a similar title to the top sellers - don’t copy directly I believe this is against ebay policy
• List in the same categories as the top sellers.
• Find the descriptive words that will captivate your audience.
• Overcome your shortcomings with the use of a Guarantee, or better description. Have the item professionally tested, or learn how to do it yourself.
• Lower your shipping with my other article

That about sums up my research, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me.

Hey guys today I’m going to show you how to insert video into your eBay auctions.

Now you can either watch the sample video below for a quick and easy instruction, or you can follow my step by step directions. It’s your choice.

Quick and Easy

Slow and Painful

Get a Youtube account

1. Visit www.youtube.com
2. click sign up in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
3. now you can either use your existing gmail/google account or you can sign up for a new account

Take a video with your camera

• Make sure it’s less than ten minutes or 100 megabytes otherwise split it into two or three videos
• If your doing a video on a product keep it simple, short, and sweet. Just show that the product works or whatever you think warrants the time spent on this video process.
• Upload the video to your computer - either save it in a specific folder that’s easily accessed or download it to your desktop. Every camera and computer setup is different otherwise I’d show you how. But to quickly tell you just right click on your “My Computer” open up your camera’s drive if it’s plugged in and look at the video you made. Right click and hit copy then paste it to your desktop - the thing that’s always there Now you know where it is.

Upload the video to Youtube

• Login
• Click “My Account”
• Then Click “Upload New Video”
• Insert a Title of your video i.e. “Demonstration of Canon SD500″
• Insert a Description i.e. “I show you that this camera up for auction works.”
• Pick a video category that best suites the video your uploading.
• Click Sharing Options then scroll down, make sure that it says “embedding” is enabled.
• Also make sure that it is a Public Video.
• Click “Upload a Video”
• Click Browse and look at your desktop or wherever you saved the video file, then click “open”
• It will now upload, it may be a timely process depending on your internet speed and the size of the video file.
• After it’s done you’ll have a bunch of html code in a little box that has the saying “Embed This Video on your Site”
• Highlight and copy this HTML - open up Notepad by going to Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Notepad
• Paste the text into the notepad and then save it to your desktop for quick reference.

Listing your eBay auction - through eBay’s Lister

• In the auction description tab write your description then hit the “HTML” button at the top of that tab.
• Find your Notepad file with the saved embed information and open it up.
• copy that html and paste it into your auction description.

Listing with Inkfrog

• Fill out the Inkfrog Create a Listing form
• When your down to the description click “on” WYSIWYG.
• Finish your description, and when you know where you want your video open the Notepad file with the embedding information and copy and paste the html into your description.
• Hit preview and see how it looks

One final tip is to place the (<center>) tag around the video like this (<center>) if you want it centered - disregard the parentheses.That’s it you’re done

Where did I learn how to do this

I learned most of this at a website called My Silent Team run by Jim Cockrum.

www.mysilentteam.com

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